"Otto Burke was the snake-infested high grass with buried land mines" (Chapter 1, pg. 4.)

"Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man" (Chapter 1, pg. 8.)

"Not being what one would call mechanically inclined, it had taken Myron half an hour to change the tire" (Chapter 2, pg. 11.)

"Christian's room looked more like a 1950s sitcom set than a modern-day campus dorm room. Myron felt as if he'd just stepped into Wally Cleaver's dormitory" (Chapter 2, pg. 14.)

"Win was full-fledged white bread. He made star quarterback Christian Steele look like a Mediterranean houseboy" (Chapter 3, pg. 25.)

"The possibilities were endless. Even those lacking creativity can come up with a million different horrors when their loved one suddenly vanishes - or more painfully, a million different hopes" (Chapter 4, pg. 35.)

"[Myron] put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese" (Chapter 5, pg. 41.)

"Yellow stick-on messages swarmed Myron's phone like locusts...